The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam May 30, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The number one talk show in the Ohio Alley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
goal inform, entertain, and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on news radio eleven SEVENTYBVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good Friday morning, Hey, Otis, guess what it's Friday? It
is Friday? But you know how headphones work when you
plug them in?

Speaker 3 (00:34):
I was gonna say, I thought that was a like,
are you asking me how to headphones work? Where there's
wires and plugs and no, no, no, I really don't know how.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm sitting here and going I can't hear anything. I
can't hear anything and there's no no wire plugged in. Yes, yeah, yeah,
So hey, like you said, it's Friday, Thank you for
tuning in. Of course you're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
What were you looking at on the wall like you
looked at like to see if it was Friday or something?
You looked ever that way. I'm thinking, what the hell
is she looking at? There's nothing on the wall because
there used to be a clock there with a date
and the time.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
That's right. Who knows? Who knows? We made it to Friday.
That's all. That's all that matters. What was that little diddy?
So because it's Friday, we like to do this. Of
course we'd like to have fun on Friday. We got
some fun questions for you this one. We're gonna throw

(01:26):
them both out and Otis wanna let you ponder these
because they're deep. They're deep questions. So with the fluctuation
we have had in the weather over the past what
seven to ten days roughly month, Well, yeah, what is
the ideal? And everybody has had this argument in their home.

(01:50):
Everybody what is the ideal setting on your thermostat for
your furnace.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
So my furnace I said at sixty.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Eight yikes, Okay, my.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Air conditioning, I said it. I leave it at seventy two,
and if I need to turn it down, I'll turn
it down. Okay, my house gets a little stuffy. There's
not a lot of windows and there's not a lot
of airflow. So the way that I there's one bedroom
door that I keep closed all the time, and there's

(02:27):
a reason for that. I don't want my dogs to
get in there. That's where my that's where my baseball
cards and stuff are. So I don't want them to
get in there. And it's also a disaster.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Area in that room.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, well, I mean it's got you know, it's got
the wrapping paper, it's got the boxes for Christmas, it's
got and then you know, there's so many other things,
and it's just it's organized, but unorganized organized chaos, yeah, somewhat.
And then it's kind of like the catch all. And
then so that that door stay shut. And lot of

(03:00):
times I don't open my bedroom window because there's people
are cutting their grass and so on. It becomes it's
very loud with the windows open at night. Sometimes I'll open,
but then again depending on the noise, Yeah, I close them.
But my air conditioner said, it's seventy two. If it
gets super hot and humid, then I'll turn it down
to about seventy.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, this kind of came out of two things. Actually.
Earlier this week, I came home from work and it
was cold in the house. It was just it wasn't
like freezing cold.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
There was a chill.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
There was a chill, and I said to my husband,
let's let's bump up the heat.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
No, no, once you turn it, once you have the
air on, you can't turn the heat on until like
October November.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Well, he said, it's not cold in here, I said,
but it is. I just want to take the chill
out of the air. I don't want to run it
like crazy, but I just want because it was still
I don't know at ten thirty eleven o'clock in the morning,
but by the time the sun would start to come out,
which it didn't actually that day, but it takes the
chill out of the house. No, no, don't touch it.

(04:06):
Don't touch it. And I am the spouse that and
I've told you this many times. He works shift work,
so there are certain shifts where I have full control
and I take it full advantage. And I have bumped
things up, whether it's the air conditioner or the heat,
I've bumped it up. And then when I'm going to

(04:27):
bed and I know he's going to come home, I
bump it back down so that he never knows I
did that. Don't anybody tell him. I'm telling this story,
by the way. So that's kind of what spurred this question,
is you know, everybody's had this argument, what are the
ideal settings? So I put this out last night on

(04:48):
our Facebook page and got tons of responses, but we
want to hear your response too. Of course, you can
comment on the Facebook post or text us three zero
three eight to two start off with bloom Daddy, or
you can call us and sixty two four eleven seventy.
Again funny, kind of out of the blue question, but
again everybody's had this argument. Michael says he keeps his

(05:13):
seventy two year round. A Net says she keeps it
sixty eight, also year round.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
The only bad thing about keeping it sixty eight in
the summer, like for me, my air conditioner would continue
to run and run and run and run. You have
to get it to a point where it's it shuts
off and it's allowed to kind of reset itself because
you don't want your air conditioner to freeze or overwork.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Give it a break. Yeah, yeah, my air conditioner in
the summer, seventy two is about.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Why I keep it seventy two, like I said, If
it gets to be that hot, humid, like I said,
I'll pop it down to seventy because it just you
have to make it.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Comfortable, see, and I can't stand to be cold. I
can't stand to be cold. And you know, put on
a sweatshirt, put on two pairs of saw. No, I
don't want to wear two pairs of socks in my house.
That's ridiculous to me. That's I don't want to layer
up in my home. Now. If I want to veg
on the couch and you know, curl up onto a blanket,

(06:12):
that's one thing. But I shouldn't have to have on
a hoodie, a turtleneck, two pairs of socks, long John's,
and an insulated If it saves.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
You one hundred bucks a month.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
You will, oh no, no, no no.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
I I just don't like winter because normally I I
normally sleep with the wind is open almost year round
or if unless it's hot and humid, so like the
last like my windows have been open the last week
at night. Oh no, and I and then every once
in a while I'll wake up and my my furnace there,
like the furnace that kick on, and I'm like, oh no, no,
I got to And I get up and I turn

(06:43):
the furnace down to like fifty two or something like that,
just so it doesn't kick on.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh I can't.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
I liked.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
I don't like to be hot when I sleep. I
have to be cool but I don't want to freeze either.
And see, I have this weird thing about me if
mine but if my face in my nose gets cold,
if I breathe in cold air, I immediately get a
horrible headache, horrible close to right it in my sixty cold.

(07:12):
To me, it is yeah, and and I and I
don't want to have a headache all the time.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
So if you go outside and it's sixty five and
you breathe.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
That air, I get a headache. It's it's it's something
that is that have I've had for as long as
I You know.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
How you stop that?

Speaker 2 (07:28):
It's miserable.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
How's that you chop your head off? Good lord, that's
a total guy. Last night he said he's been having
headaches for like two weeks. So you know how you
cure that? I said, so you get an axe in
your car, We'll just cure that right now.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Wow, So you won't feel a thing, No, I said,
your head will stop parton.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, that's one way. But no, it's it's one of
these things. It's it has to do with my sinuses
and the whole thing. But it is, it's miserable. So
a lot of the times you'll see me in the
spring walking around with my hand over my face because
I'm keeping it warm so that I don't get a headache.
It's weird.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
I know.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's another weird little dude out of house psychological No,
it's not. Why do you think I've migraine pills over here?
I have them with me all the time?

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Could you deal with bloom Daddy and me?

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Well, there you go. Yeah, that's part of it. But listen,
there's energy experts that have tackled this question, and they
say to keep your thermostat in the summer it's seventy
eight degrees. The Department of Energy, No way, it doesn't

(08:37):
say listen here. They also recommend keeping a home warmer
than usual when you're out of the house to avoid
unnecessary energy costs.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
I do that. Yeah, So if I go out of
town or if I know I'm not like, I don't
do it if I'm going to be gone during the day.
But if I know I'm going to be gone for say,
like say I'm going down to State my Dad's for
a night, I will turn I will adjust the thermostats
so that it doesn't run as much.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Anybody else out there sneaky like I am playing with
the numbers.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
I know I break.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
I reveal too much sometimes because I.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Know, Oh that mister Sam, she's she's yeah, spending your
money without you knowing it.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Here's the thing. He doesn't even have to be hearing
this right now because he's got little inside folks that
listen and tell him at work. Oh, I heard what
your wife said today. I heard you hear what you
want your wife said? Did you know your wife said
this about you?

Speaker 3 (09:30):
That's what he needs. I need his phone number because
what I just need to do is texting no new
I'll get it off of him. You no.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
So that's one of our questions today. Have you had
the fight went? Who has won? What's the thermostat static setting?
I know it's silly seven point fifteen. Also coming up
here a little bit later in the show, of course,
it's Friday, so we're gonna have some fun stuff for you.
Chance to win four pack to rafter I'm radio happening
next Saturday, so stay tuned for that. We're gonna be

(10:02):
doing that. And of course, as I said, call us
one eight hundred and sixty two for eleven seventy or
text us three zero three eight two started off with
bloom Daddy. You're listening to us here on news radio
eleven seventy WWVA. Oh, welcome back seven twenty one on

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this Friday morning. If you're listening to the bloom Daddy experience.
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA wanted to
hit on this two local stories this morning. First of all,
out of uh, the Bellsville area, we've kind of talked
about this, what other school will we Okay, that was

(10:50):
a couple months ago we talked about that. But the
Switzerland of Ohio school Board met yesterday and they have
voted unanimously five to zero to suspend grades nine through
twelve at Bellsville High School. Now it currently houses grades

(11:10):
seven through twelve. But what they are going to do
is move the seventh and eighth graders and they will
go to the elementary school. The ninth through twelfth graders
who live east of Bellsville will likely be sent to
the River High School. Those that live west likely will

(11:32):
be sent to Monroe Central. But they will also extend
an open enrollment period where students and parents can decide
other alternatives besides those two. One for example, in close
proximity would be Barnesville, for example. I think there's a
lot of shock to this, though it was done very quickly.

(11:57):
In one of the reports that I saw, which was
I thought a little little bit cold on the school
board's side, is the fact that they would not allow
any participation during the conversation from the public or and
the public includes the students, And I thought that was
a little harsh, cold hearted.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Sometimes you make a decision and the decision has to
be made, I mean, and it's whatever anybody has to
say is only going to fuel the fire. But you can't.
So in other words, you know, if I'm a person
that doesn't want the school to close, and I get
up and I speak, and I say blah blah blah

(12:38):
blah blah, then it rallies. You know. The bottom line
is it's it's financially not feasible to keep Bellsville open.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Roughly forty seven students from in four grades in four grades, right.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
I mean, so that's ten, that's eleven kids. Is a
class that's not a sustainable school. It's not fair to
the kids. Number one. And I think it was two
years maybe three years ago that they didn't have enough
girls for to have a girls basketball team. So a
couple of the girls tried out for the boys team

(13:12):
and made the team, okay, and played, but because I
also didn't have enough boys. So you know, I mean,
if you're a halfway decent athlete, you're gonna make it
no matter what. Okay, you might not be the starting
quarterback like you were at I don't know how you
have a football team at Bellsville with forty four kids,
you know, because half of it you got to figure
half of girls. Yeah, okay, not that the girls can't play,

(13:37):
but you're talking. So now you're talking, say twenty that's
just even. Let's make it fifty and say twenty five
of those kids are boys. That's just same with Peyton City.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
You can't.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
You can't, like thirteen kids out for football. What do
you You're two injuries, You're done. You know it's it's
it's just and you're you're penalizing the kids, the other kids,
because if I get hurt and then now we can't
have a team, we forfeit. Now if I go to
if I go to them in Roe Central, if I
go to River, if I go to at least I

(14:08):
know I'm gonna have enough kids on the team and
I'm probably gonna play, So they're not they're not huge
schools either.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well yeah, and we're not even talking about like a
band first.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Well, I doubt if they even have a band.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
That's what I mean, Like, there's other things besides sports
teams that you know.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Well and you figure your resources. They're not putting any
money into your school because you're so small, and it's
and I'm sorry, this school's old. I mean I when
I coached at Mount Deschanel, we played Bellsville and I
and we went to Bellsville. It's an old school. You know.
It is what it is, and it's I understand the
community I have. My neighbor actually worked when he worked

(14:47):
at Ormet. A lot of the people from that area
worked at Ormet. So you had people from Roe Central
and Bellsville. And he said, those two schools and never
consolidate because they hate each other this and that and
the other. You learn to put that hate aside. I
mean that rivalries now it's no longer a rivalry when
when one school has three times the students that yours does.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
I didn't realize Bellsville school was that small.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Yeah, it's always been small.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
I knew it was smaller, but I didn't.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
But you figure, you know, with people moving out of
the area, the birth rate dropping there, there's so many
things that come into play and just and it's the
same with Peyton City. Look, I understand that your community
that you're five miles away from from Magnolia, maybe maybe six.

(15:37):
I mean, like the difference between the two cities is
four miles, but from school to school it may be
like eight miles. You know what. Just it's your kids
will benefit more by the consolidation.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
More opportunities.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah. Well, and when you think about it, like you said,
roughly forty seven students across four grades, that's about roughly.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
Eleven were great twelve say twelve.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Okay, so we're talking like one room schoolhouse number from back.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
You're talking realistically, with twelve kids, you could have four,
you could have four classrooms. Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, No, I never realized they were that small. There's
a lot of shock behind this that you know, people
are saying that they this was unexpected. It happened very quickly.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
The writing's been on the wall for like ten years. Really,
oh yeah, I mean even when I coached there, Like
I said, you know, you're I'm talking late nineties. Yeah,
I'm like this, this school, why is the school even here?
I mean, and that's they probably had one hundred kids
then you know it probably was double. But I mean
again it financially, it just doesn't make sense.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, it's still hard. I mean it's so hard for
those involved.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
You know, they say, oh, the teachers are going to
lose their jobs, and most of the teachers will just
find another job in that in that system, you know,
in the switcher, either go to River because they're gonna
have to hire an extra teacher or whatever to absorb
the kids.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
So yeah, big changes, big changes happening. But it's seven
twenty eight, It's Friday.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Who's our ice cream winner yesterday? We didn't know?

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Oh yes, yes, yes word I put the name.

Speaker 5 (17:16):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Our our ice cream winner yesterday was Aaron. Aaron and
from Belmont County. So the gift Cerficate is in the
mail for that, and we'll have this week's picture up
this weekend. At seven twenty eight, you're listening to the
bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

(17:44):
Welcome back to seven thirty six the bloom Daddy Experience
salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So, as I
mentioned earlier, our fun question for this Friday is the
argument we've all had what's the ideal temperature setting for
your furnace or your air conditioner in your house? And

(18:08):
I kind of gave away a little little secrets that
I do in my house. Warren on Facebook says, sixty
four in the winter.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yikes, look at a buddy of mine that is fifty eight.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Oh no, who knew? No, no, no, that's a little cold.
And he says. Warren also says sixty eight in the summer, Warren,
we would not we would not get along. Well, we
would not be friends. That would be That's.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Warren and I come from the same we're cut from
the same cloth.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
But you spoke, you speak to most women. We're cold,
like we're cold all the time except for when you're
having cold the hot flash what you say? Cold hearted?
Oh yeah, women are cold hearted though. That that's uh,
that's funny coming from you.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
I'm very lovable.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
You're lovable. Yes, that's that's exactly the first adjective I
would come up with to describe you.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Well, there's a lot more adjectives that could describe me.
One begins with an A and ends in an e.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yes, it does.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
I don't know where to go after that, but no.
Texas three zero three eight two started off with bloem
daddy and tell us, do you and your spouse, your wife,
your husband, you get in this little tiff? What's your
ideal setting? Hmmm? Because there's a survey about it now,
and they are there are experts that have gotten in

(19:39):
on this conversation. Experts.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
There's no such thing as experts on this does everybody's
got a different opinion. It's just like music.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Oh well yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's what works
for you. But listen, I'm one of those people when
I follow this, when I'm in bed at night, i
end up sleeping with half my body out. I'm under
the blankets, half under. I'm always hot or I'm cold,
it's one or the other. It seems like there's never
the ideal. This is where I'm at. I'm I yeah,

(20:10):
I throw the covers off, I steal the covers. I'm
that person. So it always it's always changing, But that's
part of being a woman, and ladies out there, you
know exactly what I'm talking about, where you know it
feels like the heat is coming from the depths of
your soul. But I won't get into that because our

(20:32):
guy listeners don't want to listen to that because they
have to live. They have to live with us dealing
with it, So excuse me. Anyways. Anyways, new survey. Yeah,
I love my surveys, but this one caught my attention
because I want to ask you and otis I'm gonna

(20:53):
ask you. A new survey has revealed that one in
four people who apply for a job has either lied
or exaggerated different information on their resumes and applications. Now,

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gen Z tends to lead in this when it comes
to generations about fifty percent forty seven to be exact,
but almost fifty percent of gen Z indicate that they
have falsified something on their job applications, followed by Millennials

(21:41):
that are at thirty eight percent, gen xer is at
twenty percent, and nine percent of Baby boomers. So have
you ever lied or exaggerated on a job applic I
haven't filled one out in twenty plus years, so I'm
not the person to ask on this.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
I had a job interview. Not too long ago. I
applied with another part of the just another job in
the state, And I don't think you really had the
option to exaggerate because everything was online, so you don't
like it didn't really there wasn't a whole lot of

(22:21):
question you know, basically it was just basic questions because
it was an internal throughout, you know, since it I'm
already employed by the state. It kind of just was
like my general information and my current positions and things
like that, So there really wasn't a whole lot of
opportunity to embellish just per se. Yeah, I mean, like

(22:44):
they're asking me dates, and the only thing, like, I
can't remember the dates, so I mean they may not
be accurate.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
That's the only thing I could think of.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, But I mean I'm not doing it intentional, you know,
like I can tell you, Okay, I started on this
I can started I started this month this year, but
I don't remember that, you know the date, And you know,
some of my other things are like, okay, well was
it like with this job here, like okay, it's part time,
but you know, here's my start date. I'm not leaving

(23:14):
the job unless I absolutely have to.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, I, like I said, I haven't unless there's.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
A huge page pay increase, which I ain't gonna have either,
it's the state of West Virginia.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
I honestly, I haven't done my resume and probably gosh,
eight or ten years, I haven't updated it.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
I think, I think anymore. It's almost it's not like
you're doing everything on paper anymore and then submitting it.
Everything's everything's on my mind.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
You know, the person that I could ask, or I
should ask, is my son. But I mean he's he's
applying for jobs that like if you lie, they're gonna
catch it, you.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Know, I mean, well, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
For him, he's I mean he's federal government's going you know,
he's going for some you know, he's applied to federal probation.
He's applied to the Secret Service, He's applied to a
couple other places. He's applied for a couple of state jobs.
But you know, he was working for the FBI. So
it's like they know what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Trust me, they will find it. Yeah, you're not gonna
pull the wool over their eyes.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
I just.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
The only thing I could think that would have a
quote unquote lie, Well, like you said would be the dates.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Well, you can also embellish, like what you're responsibility, your
work experience. You can you can say that, you know
you can. You can embelly some things that they can't check.
So like they can call your employer obviously if they
want anything reference or whatever, they can call your employer
and say, okay, are these numbers right? And like if
you if you say you started in March and you

(24:50):
actually started in May, I don't think that's going to
be that big of a deal. But if you say
that I started in twenty fifteen and I started in
twenty eighteen, then that's something that's that's a red flag
to me. Yeah, that that could be.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Easily You're off by a good chunk.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
And then but you could say, like my responsibilities here
are blah blah, this, that's this this, and then they
can call and say, well what are the responsibilities and
they'll say, okay, well they hit three out of the four.
Well maybe they just say okay, Well if they don't
catch it, they don't maybe they don't ask or they say,
well what about this one. Oh well he's not in
charge of that or she's not in charge of that.
So then that's that's you can get caught well.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
And right now, I'll be honest, I work with a
bunch of different businesses and companies throughout the area and
one of the biggest struggles right now is hiring and recruitment.
And it doesn't matter the industry, it doesn't matter if
it's if it's something from waitresses at a restaurant to
cleaning people at a hotel to CDL truck drivers to

(25:54):
coal miners. I mean, it's every industry is looking for people.
And it makes me wonder if you know how much
attention do they pay to a lot of this stuff
at this point, because and I don't want to say,
I mean, there's a lot of desperation.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Sure, And one of the I think the experience is
when you're in a job, like if you're in a
I guess manual job, if it, for lack of a
better term, truck driver. You know, do you have your
CDL license. That's that's that's first and foremost, and what
what are your what are your classifications? And then so
if you have that, then they know that you've been

(26:33):
through the testing that maybe you don't have two years
experience or five years experience or whatever. They're looking for.
But you have, but you have, but you you've qualified
because you have to pass a test and a driving
test to get that CDL license. So well.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
And the one thing I never understood about the hiring
process somebody told me this a while ago, is you
put down references, right, and the possible employee. Yeah, the
possible employer calls the reference. They can't say a law.
They can just answer yes or no questions like did
this person work here? How long did they work?

Speaker 3 (27:05):
Well, you can say what's their attitude?

Speaker 2 (27:08):
See I was told you can't. You can't answer that
kind of stuff anymore, because then what's the point of
a reference if it's not. Well, there's a character reference,
and I guess there is an employer reference of where
you back up their work experience, how long they were there,
and then when you put down somebody who is more

(27:29):
in your social orbit business wise, I would say that's
more of a character reference.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Let's say you file a grievance or you or you
have a complaint against a fellow employee or supervisor or
something of that nature. That's in your file. So yeah,
they can, they can, they can share.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
That they can. Oh, okay, maybe they.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Can't come out and say you're a troublemaker. But they
can come out and say, well, you know, he's filed
a grievance against this person, and he's filed complaints against
this supervisor and so on and so forth. Then you
get labeled as a troublemaker, worry knocking, parmis pontformists.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
I don't know if you ever lied call us one
eight hundred and sixty two for eleven seventy but did
you still get the job?

Speaker 3 (28:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
I don't know. It's been so long since I've done it.
But I thought it was funny that many people fifty percent,
say up to close to fifty percent have lied on
a job application. Coming up, we're gonna have your first
chance to win this morning a family four pack to
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(28:34):
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back seven fifty two The
bloom Daddy Experience, salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA.
We got a text, Otis. What was the response about, Yeah, our.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Buddy Doug said, he puts on the resume not eligible
for rehire, and it pretty much sums it all up.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah. That wraps it up with the bow, doesn't it.
That gets the that gets the point across. Huh.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
It basically covers everything.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah does Yeah, it does. So the National Spelling Bee
had its winner.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Okay, okay, let me guess.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
No, no, don't look, okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
I just wanted to. I was looking at the person's name.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Okay. So the person's name is Faison Zaki. He won
the He won the spelling Bee, so he was actually
last year's runner up. But here's the winning word. See
if you can spell it.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
I want to see if you can say it.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
A Claire wait, A Claire sesi, Ama, can.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
You give me a definition?

Speaker 2 (29:52):
A clearing up of something obscure?

Speaker 3 (30:00):
You have the entomology.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
I don't even know what that is.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
But the origin of the word Greek is it doesn't
say no, I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
This is worth fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
I'm going to guess that it starts with an e.
You are correct, but say the word again.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Clares e c clares.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
The ma e c l.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
It's French I would say.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
E C E C l A uh huh r e okay,
come out.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
It starts off like you Claire the the yeah, okay
E C L A I R C I S S
E M E N T.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
It looked like it looks like a claiisiment.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
But yeah, but if you look at the vernacular type out,
there's no mint at the end, it's ma.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
So if you look at the pronunciation, you mean yeah, yeah,
so yeah, I would. I'm out.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Well, the young man walked away with the fifty thousand
dollar prize, but.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
I'd have been lucky to walk out with fifty cents
my spelling ability.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
But of course we had Brett from Bridgeport.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
Did he say where he finished.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
Well, he was there representing Beaumont, Balmont County. So he
made a good showing. And I'm getting this from see
or the Times Leader just to give acknowledgment his fourteen.
He will be beginning his freshman year this upcoming school
year at Bridgeport. But let's see here. He made it
to the preliminary round, but he missed the mark in

(31:47):
the definition portion of the competition and he was eliminated.
So let's see here. He took the stage Tuesday in
round two, he correctly spent. He correctly spelled muck tuck.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
M u k t uk just like it sounds.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Yeah, it's an Illuit word for whale skin, which is
used as food. But he missed the definition for declamatory,
which is characterized by rhetorical display. I didn't know there
was a definition.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah, I thought it was a spelling bee.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Yeah, I thought you either speed nice.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
For the definition to kind of get an idea of
what the word means.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Maybe the spelling bee has advanced since we participated in one.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
And I noticed yesterday where the representative there was a
representative from West Virginia, and I think that said that
they placed like seventy fifth or fifty seventh.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
I can't remember how many is there totally.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
There's like two hundred kids whatever. But in our little
newswire it said that thea and it said what school
he was at, but it didn't say where. Okay, and
I just figured, well, I've never heard of that school,
so it's not local. Oh So I was like, okay,

(33:08):
we're not even going to talk about it when it
was on the twenty four to seven New Source yesterday.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Listen, honestly for Brett to get there.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Yeah, and make it around too.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
And that's huge.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
You know, you get to go get to go to DC,
you know, yeah, get to probably go to the Smithsonian
or you know, it's you get to do more than
the Spelling Bee.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
And here's the thing. And I'm going to sound like
a dork, which I knew that was coming. I actually
watched a documentary on the Spelling Bee and it it
fucked No, it was not on that, but it followed
like I think it was like for the kids that
were participating and what they do throughout the year to

(33:47):
make it to that level, it's insane. I mean, yeah,
it's their thing.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Basically eat a dictionary.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah, I mean I get it. It's their thing. It's
it's their parents push them, it's it's what they want
to be a part of. But yikes, yikes, it's a lot.
It's a lot. So, oh, how do we want to
do this.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Let's do a phone call.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Let's do a phone call. All right, one in hundred
sixty two, four eleven seventy. This is your first chance
this morning to win. And we have got a family
four pack to rafter m Rodeo out in Belmont. The
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(34:38):
So one in hundred and sixty two four eleven seventy.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
You have ever seen a rodio? I didn't like.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Never seen a cowboy I didn't like. No, we uh,
what number we want to do? Let's do fourteen caller
number fourteen one hundred sixty two four eleven seventy, caller
number fourteen and seven fifty eight on your Friday morning.
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Speaker 1 (34:59):
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Speaker 2 (35:31):
Welcome back, eight oh six. You're listening to the bloom
Daddy Experience. Sam and otis News Radio eleven seventy WWV.
I just blew out my own ear drums. I hit
the volume on my headset. Wow, maybe jump your Headset's good?

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Right?

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Okay, all right? Joining us in the studio. Now we
have Jason Adams from the C three soccer camp.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
Good morning, good morning, thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Yes, absolutely so, okay you are in front of and
I'm not a shame to say it. Oh, this is
the same way. We are not what you would call
soccer officion honors. Oh I butchered that word. Yes I did.
I've been to one soccer game in my life. So
you talk to us as if we're exactly where we are.

(36:17):
We know nothing about soccer, so sounds good.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
Luckily, there's not much to explain acocer. That's the beauty
of the sport.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
So this is what the eighteenth year for the camp.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
Correct, that's right. We've been doing it for hard to believe,
for eighteen years now, and from those early days of camp,
we now have people who are counselors essentially, people who
are coaching now who are four or five years old
when they went through the camp. So it's been quite
a journey.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
To get here.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
And this all happens in June. This is a huge event, right,
it is.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
It is.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
It's the biggest event that the church puts on for sure.
It is June fifteenth to seventeenth, so just in a
couple of weeks at the Linsley School and we already
have over two hundred people registered, so typically we get
between two and three hundred four and ten year old
four through ten year olds registered. So we always say
when you put you know, two hundred kids at a

(37:09):
camp plus parents plus siblings, that number grows very quickly.
So we tend to have a pretty large number across
the fields there at Lindsley.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
Now, do you have to be a member of C
three or a student at Lindsley to participate?

Speaker 4 (37:23):
This is open to everybody, absolutely, No, Yeah, it's completely
open to the community. It's a community outreach through the
church that it's a great way to reach people. And
it's free. So a lot of times I was free,
completely free. So a lot of times there are you know,
cost limitations for kids that get to go to camp
in the summer, so we wanted to make sure that
wasn't an obstacle. So it's been completely free the whole time,
so anyone could come out.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Okay, So ages, let's let's say what are the ages
for the kids?

Speaker 4 (37:48):
So the ages are four through ten.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Oh four year olds that would be adorable.

Speaker 4 (37:52):
So the four the four and five year old are
typically our biggest group adorable.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
But yet you got to sit there. It's like, if
it's like any other thing that four and five year
olds do, their attention spans about like that of a gnat.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
Yeah, you're exactly right, it's essentially hurting cats. For forty
five minutes of soccer especially, we're just you know, they're
just chasing balls, running around. And that's the great thing
about soccer is there's no barrier to entry, right, you
can just come out if you have shoes, even if
you don't have shoes, we'll have balls and it's just
running around, getting to an introduction to the game, having
fun and an environment that's safe. And yeah, so four

(38:26):
and five year olds, and then it goes all the.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Way up to ten and again this is happening June
fifteenth through the seventeenth.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
Yes, June fifteen through the seventeenth at Linsley.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
And what times does this This is in the morning
is it the afternoon, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
It's in the evening, so six to seven point thirty. Again,
there's about forty five minutes of soccer instruction and then
we bring all the kids back together for a fun
time of some singing, some skits, story from the Bible,
and then snacks, so which is typically their favorite part.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
How many people are you're not doing this yourself?

Speaker 4 (38:59):
I am not, Luckily, it's it's a great outreach not
only from the church but from the community. So typically
we'll have across the three nights between forty to fifty coaches,
different soccer coaches. That ranges from high school players, college players,
high school coaches, college coaches all the way to people
who just played before and are good with kids, and
then over one hundred to one hundred and fifty other volunteers,

(39:22):
so people that are doing registration, people that are we
call them the perimeter team, which is sitting around the
perimeter that we set up to make sure that no
five year olds wandered off into the creek. Security.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
Yeah, you don't want that.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Field marshals people that are running kids to the bat
takes it. It takes an army year. I bet put
it on, I bet, and we've got it pretty dialed
over the eighteen years.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
So what's your experience in soccer? I mean, obviously I
asked you before you came on about your dad, and
so I know that your dad was huge and like
basically getting travel soccer started in this area. If I'm
not mistaken, that's exactly right.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
So about over thirty years ago he started kind of
the first travel team here and Wheeling and are family
has been kind of associated with soccer between my brothers
and I for a long time now. I played at
Lindsley and did well there, went on to play at
Princeton University. I've coached at the collegiate level and at
the high school level, and now I'm coaching my son's

(40:16):
nine year old travel team. So we've come the full
gamut from kind of being, you know, a toddler and
my dad started travel soccer here to now being a
coach for my son.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Well, and soccer has finally started to gain a lot
of momentum here in the area because I know, growing
up it was not available at my high school or
junior high but it started to become more and more popular.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
Right, Yeah, there's been a big, a big growth over
the last couple decades of soccer in the area. Yeah,
most people grew up playing football or baseball. Yeah, that
was kind of the only option. So it's been really
neat and again because soccer is just so accessible, right,
I mean again, you really don't need a lot of
equipment to start playing. You just need a ball in
a net if you want it, but be two cones
set up on the side of the field, and so

(41:03):
it's just a really easy introduction to the sport. So
it's it's been really fun to see that grow. The
high school teams are doing great, the local college teams
are doing great. The club is growing both here and in
Saint Clairsville and Washington, PA. So it's it's been a
really neat progression.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
You had to have watched Ted Last, so of.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
Course, yeah, big AFC Richmond fan. Yeah, no, we love
Ted Last.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Yeah, that's what I know about soccer is through what
I've seen on Ted Last.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
You've watched the one with Ryan Reynolds and the guy
from Yeah yeah, so the Wrexham a f Yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
So yeah, it's been again those those are just cool
stories that are just continued to kind of spotlight the
game and how incredible it is. And you know, Ted
Lasso obviously kind of trying to break the stereotype of
an American soccer fan.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
On a typical soccer team. How many players on the side.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
So eleven at the highest level, Yes, okay, eleven.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
So I know that because there's a joke out there
that says, you know about soccer, and I've used this
many times and I said, if I want to if
I want to watch eleven guys struggle to score, I'm
going to go out with my buddies on a Friday night.

Speaker 4 (42:05):
So yeah, the low scoring is not for everyone. I
will say, you have to learn to appreciate. It's called
the beautiful game for a reason because it's a it's
a tapestry of essentially twenty two people running around the
field for ninety minutes and in winning one nothing. It's
a great game.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Yeah, it's it's not the hard hitting action of a
lot of other sports. But what you guys are doing
for the for the young people here in the area.
You said that you've had, you know, kids that have
gone through and now there are adults in their participating.
You know, what are this do they What are the
stories they have from being a part of the camp,

(42:40):
like lifelong friends things like that.

Speaker 4 (42:42):
Yeah, lots of friends they remember. You know a lot
of times, it's not the soccer that they remember. It's
the other stuff that goes on.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
Nacktime.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
It's the snack time. It's the skits that the kids
tend to love across the three nights, and yeah, it's
just that we want it to be a really welcoming experience.
Something that's again we we really proud ourselves on being
a safe, welcoming experience. So hopefully they take away just
a really fun time and you know, a fun interaction
both to the game of soccer and to the church

(43:10):
and just it's you know, again, there's not a lot
of kids who can pay to go to camps around here,
and so just making sure that it's free and welcoming
and inviting is really the goal and something we've been
able to achieve well.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
And one other thing I want to hit on we
do we are the o High Valley. The weather is
a game in itself. What about weather situations, indoor complex availability,
anything like.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
That, exactly.

Speaker 4 (43:33):
It's a great question. You know. It seems like it
rains obviously, especially lately, every single day.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
So yeah, eight days a week.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
Yeah, that's what it feels like, so rain or shine. Yeah,
So Lindsley's great and that we have the gym facilities
right there by the field, so they've been awesome to
partner with us over all these years. And if it
rains we can take everyone inside. That is an that's
an animal in itself, getting one hundred and fifty kids,
as you said, hurting cats and getting shoes off and
getting but we we've got it done to a science

(44:01):
with people at the door getting shoes off, getting them
in bags, making sure everything's handled. And yeah, we do
have the space to accommodate everyone inside, so rain or shine,
come on out, and.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
What we'll be there and what do you take out
of this? I mean, it has to be fulfilling.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
Yeah, it's a great question. Soccer's given me a lot
over my lifetime. It's allowed me to see a lot
of things and meet a lot of great people. So
any chance that I personally have to give back through
the game is really rewarding. And this is a way
that you know, I'm a little bit unique and being
able to help in this sense, and we have a
great again, just this could not happen with just a

(44:36):
few people. Like the army of both volunteers and coaches
that come out is awesome. So it's a super fulfilling experience.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
And still taking participants, right.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
I see three Wheeling dot com you can jump on
and register. If you can't do that, show up night
one and you can register on site as well.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Okay, and I have your graphics, so I'll share it
on our Facebook page that has all the information, the contact,
the online everything. So if you wan want to get
your little ones involved, what a great opportunity and it
doesn't cost you anything. And listen, parents, it's a break
too exactly.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
You can either drop them off or you can stay.
Just be out.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
Never say you can drop them off, never say that.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
I just want to completely maybe the ten year olds.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
Don't drop your four and five year old off.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
Please don't I take that back. But yeah, come on
out and sit outside, grab a lawn chair. Yeah, watch
and walk outside for again.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Happening June fifteenth through the seventeenth The C three Soccer Camp. Jason,
thank you so much this morning. Oh no problem. It's
eight sixteen on your Friday. The bloom Daddy Experience salmon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back. It's eight

(45:46):
twenty two. The bloom Daddy Experience, salmon Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA talking soccer a little bit. Did your
boys ever play soccer?

Speaker 3 (45:55):
I was just gonna tell you I get a quick story. So,
my youngest one, when he was four, he wanted to
he wanted to play t ball, but you can't. They
at the time, the organization would't let you play unless
you were five or you turn five at a certain
time or something of that nature. So there was a
summer where like he wanted to do something, but you know,

(46:18):
and he wanted to play baseball, but he couldn't. So
he's we signed him up for kiddie Kick soccer. And
the guy that was his coach knew both myself and
my my wife at the time, and uh, you know
it it was for me, it was painful, Like I mean,

(46:40):
I'm sorry, I'm not a soccer fan. I I don't
I'm not I'm not gonna lie. I mean for some
kids it's great. Uh, it wasn't. Like even my son,
you know, while I think he had fun doing it,
to this day, he said it was it was the
worst thing he ever did. And that's not you know,

(47:01):
that's just that's just my opinion, his opinion. And but
the funny you know, and I can remember the guy
that was coaching, he said, Hey, I'm going to be
out of town next week. Do you think you could
coach the team, and I'm like, what are you out
of your mind? And he goes, come on, I don't
know anybody else, and I'm like, oh my god, So
I guess I was. I was in charge for a

(47:22):
week of the kiddie kick soccer and I had no
idea what I was doing, and I just all I
did was rotate kids in and out.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
So my cousin. I have relatives in northern Kentucky and
I have a cousin. His name is Jason. He was,
or still maybe he was really really good at soccer.
I still remember as a kid going to visit them
and they had the shiny soccer shorts and it was
so foreign because we didn't have soccer around here. We

(47:51):
didn't have Adidas shoes, and they had the whole soccer look.
But anyways, he got a scholarship to play soccer in college,
and I remember remember he was here playing against Wheeling
Jesuit at the time. So I'm like, Okay, We're gonna
go watch Jason play soccer. Oh my god. It was

(48:14):
so boring. I mean again, I'm a I'm a football girl,
Like I'm used to constant action when I'm watching a
sporting game, and this was like it was like watching
paint dry and it was so boring to me. Listen,
no offense to the soccer fans out there and those
who enjoyed playing and watching soccer, but yeah, I just

(48:35):
kept I remember leaning over to my other cousin, his
sister that was there. He's like, when are they going
to do anything? Like, yeah, when are they going to score?
It just looked to me it looked like a bunch
of guys just running around aimlessly, you know. So that's
that's about my, uh, my experience when it comes to soccer.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
The last time I was, I visited my friend in Amsterdam,
which would have been twenty nineteen. He took me on
the tour of the soccer facility did. We toured the stadium,
which was kind of neat, you know, how they do
it because you're in you're in Amsterdam, there's not a
lot of It's not like it doesn't get excessively cold,
but it doesn't get excessively hot either. And the way

(49:18):
that they they have actual like UV lights and water,
how they water the field, it's kind of neat how
they do it. So, I mean, it was an interesting
tour and the hometown team, which is Ajax, was playing
while I was there, and he and like he felt
so bad. He goes, oh, he said, I should have

(49:38):
got his tickets to the soccer match. And I was like,
I'm okay, I'm good, I'm good. But so we ended
up going to this little bar restaurant and watched the
game on TV. I was people watching more than I
was watching the game.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Soccer fans are intense, Yes they are, Yes, they are.
My husband and I were. We were somewhere, I want
to say, Gettysburg. And what's the big tournament every year
for soccer?

Speaker 5 (50:07):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (50:08):
The World Cup?

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Yes, the World Cup? Oh said, every four That's how
much I know. And that was going on and it
was the female teams, I believe. And these people were nuts.
They were nuts and we were like it an airbnb
or something and they were yelling and screaming and cussing

(50:30):
and the whole thing. And it was like, wow, and
they have chance and they have you know. But I'm
sure that's how they look at us and at football
fans and baseball fans and everything else. But they are intense.
They absolutely are intense. I will say this though. It
did back to my cousin. It did open a lot

(50:50):
of doors for him. After college, he got the opportunity
to I don't know if you call it semi professional.
I'm not sure how all their leagues all work. But
he got to travel Europe playing soccer for like, I
don't know, five seven years.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
I mean, if you can make a living out of
it and you get to see the world, why not.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
I met his wife from Scotland brought her back here.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
You know, I mean that's I mean there. I mean,
there are cool things about that. Yeah, my friend that
I visited in Amsterdam, his son plays field hockey and
plays it professionally, and he's played in South Africa and
Australia and other places. And I mean, you know, I'm like,
more power to ing. But I mean, like field hockey,
we don't even think about it here. No, No, it's

(51:32):
a women's sport in college. That's about all I can
tell you. I don't think there's men's field hockey. If
there is, I don't know about it.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
That's one of the things about the Olympics I like,
is you learn about all these other sports that had
no idea they.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
Like team handball, and.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Yeah, that they even existed. Or my favorite not shuffle board,
curly love curling, God, I love curling. I want to
try curling.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
There's a curling place up in Pittsburgh or outside of Pittsburgh. Yeah, ooh,
we gotta try it.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Road trip, road trip.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
I think it's you're around, so you can go. You
can go in the summer, but you'll get a headache
cause it's probably fifty degrees in there.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Oh. I see curling in our future. It's eight.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
I don't know if I could shoot the putt's because
I can, I don't know if I can get that
low anymore.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
We get stuck out our knees with.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
Locked dice and then you'd have to call a crane
and to get us up.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Oh, anyways, it's a twenty eight. We're gonna jump to
a quick break. You're listening to The bloom Daddy Experience,
salmon OTAs News Radio eleven seventy w WV A welcome
at eight thirty six on your Friday, The bloom Daddy Experience,
salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy w w VA. Just

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a reminder before we are out of here for the weekend,
we're gonna have another chance to win a Family four
pack to rafter m Rodeo next Saturday, which is June seventh,
out in Belmont, So that will be coming up here
in a little bit one or two. Highlight a couple
things that are going on this weekend if you haven't
made plans yet. Of course, the celebration kicked off yesterday.

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That is the birthday party for Wheeling Park who's turning
one hundred years old. Happening today. There will be live
performances by MSM and Eli in the Mojo Kings. There
will be concessions of beer garden, Family Fund Zone that
is from today from five to nine and then Saturday

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from at nine am, King and Queen of the Hill
Fun Run is happening at eleven will be the spray
and Splash Pad, ribbon cutting and then there all day
long there will be a market, family fund zone, live music,
all that kind of stuff. So plenty going on this
weekend in celebration of one hundred years for Wheeling Parks.

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So if you don't have anything going on there you go.
Then if you're like me and you like to hunt
for a deal, it's this weekend people. It is the
weekend of the historic National Road Yard Sale. And of
course Belmont County is knee deep in it, a huge

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part of it. It kicked off Wednesday, but starting today
is when it will be busy, busy, busy, and I
wanted to let everybody know this little little plug for
myself and a group that I'm a part of, the
Rotary Club of Saint Clairsville is setting up their own
yard sale and participating this year in the National Roadyard Sale.

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And of course, if you're not familiar with Rotary, this
is a fundraising event. This fundraising goes to a lot.
All the money is for our donation period that we
will do anything from scholarships to supporting local food pantries
students That is done at the end of our fiscal year.
But this will be added to the plot that we

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use to do those donations. So this is our location
for the Rotary of Saint Clairsville will be happening at
the East Richland Office Complex, which is on National Road
in Saint Clairsville. Of course, the address is forty six
seven to seven zero. Here's the thing though, it's indoor
and outdoor, so come rain or shine, the Rotary yard

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Sale will be happening. And I'm going to be there
a little bit later today to check out everything that
they have. There's tons of stuff out there already. There's
there's barb in furniture. Harvey Goodman is a big part
of this, and there is a ton of furniture that
they have that they have donated to this yard sale.
So if you're looking for anything from tables to end tables,

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to couches to so if anything, there's tons of it
out there. So this is the opportunity. And when I'm
telling you it's cheap, it's cheap. But I'm trying to think.
I love flea markets, I love yard sales. I love
to find a deal, and I'm trying to think of
one of the best things I've ever found at a

(56:14):
yard sale or a flea market. I don't know otis
have you. I don't know if there'll be any baseball
cards or anything like that that's kind of up your alley.
I don't are those things at yard sales?

Speaker 3 (56:25):
And sometimes are they? I mean you'll find somebody that
doesn't know what they have, or they'll have tons of
what they call junk wax, uh huh, and they'll try
to unload the head on people that don't know what
they're doing.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
So when I head out there, keep an eye out
for any type.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Of Yeah, I mean, if you like, take pictures, because
obviously I don't want anything from I really don't need
anything from the eighties per se, okay, which once you
get into about eighty three eighty four, that starts the
junk wax period. It's just when they mass produce so
many cards that they're basically not worth anything. That's not okay,
that's the good and that goes up until about ninety

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five ninety six, so it's about a ten to fifteen
year run there where basically everything's junk wax. But yeah,
I mean, if you find somebody that has some older
stuff or whatever, like, if you see something, let me
know you just shoot me a text and take some
money with you in case, and then I'll just pay
you back.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
On Monday, I'll keep my eyes peeled. I'll keep my eyes.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
Peeled or tell them to put it aside, and then
I will be lining it to that area.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
So again, the National National road Guard sale will be
going on all weekend through through Sunday.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
I'll just put this out there if anybody has any
nineteen fifty seven or nineteen sixty five tops that they're
looking to get rid of. I'm more than willing to
listen to what you have.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Well, it's funny talking about the baseball cards.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
So we have any baseball cards from the fifties or sixties,
I'd be interested.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
You'd be interested in it. Okay. Because when I called
our lunch winner Killey, which of course keey, we'll see
you later today delivering your lunch. But he we were
talking a little bit and he was like, yeah, I
do baseball cards too, you know when you mentioned the
different cards and stuff.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
So I I had a brain fart last night at
about eleven.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
O'clock and you dropped two hundred dollars on baseball one
hundred and thirty five. Okay, Hey, I was close. I
was close.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Yeah. I bought but one that is a fifty seven
that's hard to find, and it was a couple of
dollars more than I wanted to spend. But I figured
I don't see him that often, so for five dollars,
I'm not going to let it go. And then I
bought something that I don't even collect. But I was
looking at what the prices he was selling him at
to what they're valued at and it was kind of

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hard not to take them. They're what they call it
nineteen sixty three ruboffs. And so what you would do
is you would you would rub them on too, like
like your notebook or your lunch box or okay whatever
is that like a transfer? Almost? Oh, and so like
there was a Clemente, And I mean I bought some
Hall of Famers, like a m Usual, And some of
them are looked like they're in pretty good shape, centered whatnot.

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So if I get them graded, maybe they're worth I
can turn them around and sell them for two or
three times when I paid for them.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
Hmmm mm hmm, yeah, yeah, I get it. The baseball thing.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
I think about all Hall of famers too, about five.
I think I bought five of them. So I got Clemente,
Stan Usual, Don Drysdale, Brooks, Robinson. There's one other one.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
Hmmm. I can't think of often, I don't, I don't know.
I know some of those names. I don't know all
of them.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
I don't all of those were Hall of famers. Oh,
Bill Mazeroski was the other one.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
All that name I know obviously, So yes, anyways, happening
today through Sunday is the National Road Yard Sale. Now's
the opportunity to go get yourself some deals, but swing
by the rotary one. Like I said, it's happening on
four six, seven seven zero National Road West, which is
the East Richland Office Complex. Rain or shine. Our doors
will be open because there will be shopping inside and outside.

Speaker 3 (59:57):
That just today, did you say.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
No, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I will be there today
and tomorrow and maybe I'll cut you a deal. There
you go, But that doesn't help when it comes to fun.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
And I said, okay, I kind of I thought they
were the rub but there you peel them.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
I'm doing I'm defeating the purpose when I say I'm
going to cut you a deal. But no, I would
love to see you come out and participate. And here's
the thing. When you if you are driving in Belmont
County this weekend and you're on National Road, be patient
because it is a yeah, it's a crazy day. People
are pulling off, they're trying to find places to park.

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This is a this is a big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
I didn't realize for people that aren't paying attention, yes.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Yes, and people that are walking on the side of
the road. I didn't realize what a big deal this
event is. But it really is a huge, huge event.
So here's a funny story. Let's lighten up and have
a joke. Here, drunk Turkish man, I'm going to start
it with that. Following a night of drinking with friends,

(01:01:01):
Behon Motulu from the city of Ingall, Turkey, went missing
in the woods. Concerned for his whereabouts, his wife alerted
authorities when they were unable to reach this gentleman, who
was fifty to fifty years old. Unknowingly, Matulu stumbled upon

(01:01:21):
his own search party and decided to lend a hand
with the rescue efforts. So it wasn't until one of
the rescuers called out his name that he realized he
was who they were looking for. He responded and said

(01:01:42):
I'm here, and confessed to not realizing the situation until then.
He jokingly requested not to be harshly punished, citing concerns
about his father's reaction. Eventually, he was escorted home. Whoops,
so he stumbled upon his own search party.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Nice. Yeah, so kind of reminds me of the Mash
episode where they think they lost a patient like not died,
they can't find him. Oh lord and so he was
from Luxembourg, which is one of the smallest countries in Europe,
and they started to have a memorial service for him,
and he comes stumbling out of the post off ward

(01:02:20):
there and then he's standing next to his commander and
they go, oh, there he is the clerk I think
was his name.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
I wonder if there was any any alcohol involved in this,
mister Matulu, if he had a few little cocktails.

Speaker 3 (01:02:34):
Well, he was out with these friends at night, so
I'm guessing that they probably had a few adult beverages.
He was in the woods, so they've been like an
eighties k party.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
Who does it's a forty six you're listening to the
Bloom Diedy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy w
w VA. Welcome back in to eight fifty one the
Blue Dutty Experienced. Sam and Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA.

(01:03:08):
We can't wrap up the week, wrap up the month
without talking to Kevin Cook's draw Automotive. You busy this weekend, Kevin?

Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
Morning, Sam?

Speaker 4 (01:03:16):
How you doing?

Speaker 5 (01:03:17):
We are a little busy, but now I heard you
were busy watching the Great Train Robbery perform Lagrange that
you have a secret admirer.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Oh oh, I don't know about that. But Eugene is Eugene.
He's the bomb man. I mentioned anything he finds me,
videos and everything, Eugene is on it.

Speaker 5 (01:03:40):
I will say that that's cool, that's cool. But yeah,
you know, it is the end of the month, you know,
and there's a lot of people that wait, you know,
till the last minute, you know, to take advant each
of us trying to hit our numbers. Okay, and we
get that, all right, I mean we get it. This
is going to be a rep breaking wee kid. All right.

(01:04:01):
We're going all out putting every car deal together possible.
All these rooftops, whether it's Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, both the Cross,
the Dodge Deep Ram stores, both the Honda stores forward,
they all have an objective they're trying to exceed that.
There's bonus levels out there for the managers, for salespeople. Okay,
there are special incentives that the manufacturer puts out you

(01:04:25):
know that we can hit and we pass that savings
onto y'all. So we're you know, we're doing everything we
can to put every car deal together. See for yourself.
I'll go on to Drystrib dot com. Start your shopping process. There.
It's the easiest you'll find anywhere, you know, And this
is the weekend to save.

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
There you have it. And this is before. This is
before because the potential for tariffs to kick in. Correct.

Speaker 5 (01:04:51):
That's true, Yeah, it's very true. This could be. I'm
not sure when it's going to start. But the one
thing I can guarantee you is the prices that we
have right now arempletely terror free. The prices that we
have right now are better than you know, their pre
COVID pricing. So don't miss this huge opportunity to say
we're we're seeing we're seeing payments that you know, we've

(01:05:12):
talked about it ten twelve years ago. Okay, we're matching
those payments, So come on out save some money.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
So got a quick question for you. Shoot, we are
giving away tickets later in the show for the rafter
M Rodeo coming up next Saturday. Are you a rodeo person?
You know?

Speaker 5 (01:05:28):
I like bull riding. I do like the skill that
it takes, the roping, you know, the barrel racing. Yeah,
that's it's all real cool.

Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
Yeah, so obviously you've been to a rodeo.

Speaker 5 (01:05:38):
I've been more than one.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
All right, Well, we just wanted to just get your
opinion on it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
Would you ever get on a bull?

Speaker 5 (01:05:46):
Would I get on one? Now?

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:05:49):
What I've got on one thirty years ago? Sure?

Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
Yeah, so yeah, I agree with you. Now is not
the time. No, No, bones are brittle.

Speaker 5 (01:05:59):
Well yeah, you know there's been some you know, when
they replace joints and stuff. You're not supposed to do
really stupid things like that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
Well, I think it's just in general you're not supposed
to do stupid things. But well yeah, but when you
get that here hold my beer attitude.

Speaker 5 (01:06:14):
Then yes, yeah, those guys are athletes.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
Yeah, oh yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 5 (01:06:19):
Yeah, those guys are super athletes really and shy really,
you know. It's a it's a challenge, that's for sure.
They definitely step up to it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
So here's the question. Have you ever ridden a mechanical bull?

Speaker 5 (01:06:30):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Okay? Did you do well? Yes? Okay? All right, so
there we go.

Speaker 5 (01:06:36):
Until the operating you decided I shouldn't do well anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
Yeah. You know, one time we wrote a mechanical bull
out in Saint Louis, and when the girls got on
the guy, it was super slow. When a guy got
on it was like as fast as you can.

Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
Yeah, they'll leave you on there just.

Speaker 4 (01:06:54):
As long as they want you on the exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
So that's for sure, all right, buddy, enjoy the weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
They turned the bull into warp speed when a.

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah absolutely. A friend of mine and I
we went out there for for a Greyhounds game and
we were out there because we were doing the radio
for it, and it was either the night before or
after the game, and we found this little place that
had a mechanical bull, and so the girls, you know, they're,
you know, they're dressed to go out, and they've got
their cutoff jeans on and everything else. And the bull's

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going real slow and they're just you know, they're riding,
you know, and it's like, yeah, all right, well I
can do this. He doesn't want to see you. He
didn't want to see our fat rear ends on that bull,
and he threw us off within like a tenth of
a second.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
There's a particular motion on the bull, ye yes, yeah,
and you pick up what I'm laying down there.

Speaker 3 (01:07:46):
Yeah. But it's also you like just the balance, like
you're trying to hold on with one hand and just
the balance like if you've never done it like, which
we had never done it before, so like we had
get no idea what to prepare for. But it just
throws you off and you don't even I'm not throws

(01:08:06):
you off the bull itself, but it throws your off kilter.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
Yeah, you're off, and.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
Then like you're trying to compensate and then all of
a sudden, you're you over compensate.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
Well, the cowboys that I've spoken to, which you know,
is like two that I know, it's all about the
thighs staying on. It's all about the inner thighs. Okay,
So that's that's where the strength is. Speaking of animals
before we wrap this up, we haven't had a story
out of Florida in a while. It's been it's been
a little while. We've had a drought when it comes

(01:08:36):
to Florida stories. Well, we have one today and it
involves a ferret. A ferret, a ferret, which if you
they ugh, yeah, they're kind of gross. So Florida police
are searching for a suspect that allegedly stole stole a
six hundred and fifty dollars ferret from a pet Land store.
According to the police report, security cameras captured footage of

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the male suspect browning the ferret section and fondling the
ferret for quite some time. He's a ferret fondler.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
Oh, that's kind of weird.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Before shoving it into his shorts.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Oh that's even weirder, and leaving.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
The store without paying.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
Like if I'm if I'm shoving a ferret down my shorts,
I'm wearing a cup. I'm wearing a catcher's cup.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
They well, they're a burrowing animal. They like to do.

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
Yeah, I'm covering my junk.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
So they have dubbed him the ferret bandit. They're missing it.
It should be the ferret fondling bandit. I mean it
just if yeah, it just goes to better, all right.
So on that note, let's do it one hundred and
sixty two four eleven seventy for your chance to win
a family four pack to see rafter m rodeo and

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I believe they actually do a mechanical bool with the rodeo. Okay,
so if you want to give it a whirl what
we were just talking about, that's your chance. One eight
hundred sixty two four eleven seventy.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
If you're a dude, just know this. Girls get it slower.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
Oh I'm gonna yeah, not gonna comment on that. One
eight hundred sixty four eleven seventy. Let's do. Caller number eighteen.
Caller number eighteen one eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy. Everybody,
enjoy the weekend. Go get yourself some deals at the
National Road Yard Sale, or come see me. All right,

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we'll see you next month. We'll talk to you on Monday.